Sarah Rosen Wartell is the Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. She joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Special Assistant to the
Assistant Secretary for Housing and the Federal Housing Commissioner, Nicolas
P. Retsinas. In November of 1996, she was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Operations for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and in August
of 1997, she was appointed Associate General Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Housing.

At the NEC, Ms. Wartell is responsible for coordinating Administration
policies on such issues as consumer protection, legal reform, bankruptcy,
pensions, financial markets and institutions, and international labor rights.
Ms. Wartell also led the staff-level working group that developed the President's
New Markets initiative for the FY 2000 budget.

Before joining the Administration, Ms. Wartell practiced law
with the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC. Ms. Wartell is a graduate
of Yale Law School and received her undergraduate degree in Urban Affairs
from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University.